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Hampden County

Agawam	Holland	Southwick
Blanford	Holyoke	Springfield
Brimfield	Longmeadow	Tolland
Chester	Ludlow	Wales
Chicopee	Monson	Westfield
East Longmeadow	Montgomery	West Springfield
Granville	Palmer	Wilbraham
Hampden	Russell

Hampshire County

Amherst	Hadley	South Hadley
Belchertown	Hatfield	Southampton
Chesterfield	Huntington	Ware
Cummington	Middlefield	Westhampton
Easthampton	Northampton	Williamsburg
Goshen	Pelham	Worthington
Granby	Plainfield	Enfield
		Prescott

Franklin County

Ashfield	Greenfield	Orange
Bernardston	Hawley	Rowe
Buckland	Heath	Shelburne
Charlemont	Leverett	Shutesbury
Colrain	Leyden	Sunderland
Conway	Monroe	Warwick
Deerfield	Montague	Wendell
Erving	New Salem	Whately
Gill	Northfield

National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts

Quabbin Reservoir

Lost Towns of the Quabbin Valley

Rail Trails in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts

A River Flows through It

nomenclature of cemeteries – EXTERNAL LINK

Single Burial Graveyards around New England

John Donohue

Essex County	Middlesex	Norfolk / Suffolk	Plymouth / Barnstable
Salem	Concord	Boston	Lakeville
	Sudbury	Brookline
	Cambridge
	Watertown
	Lowell
	Newton
	Wakefield

Worcester County	Berkshire	Bristol	Dukes / Nantucket
Douglas	Otis	Fall River
Hardwick	Lee	New Bedford
Webster	Pittsfield	Westport
Dudley		Dartmouth
North Brookfield		Fairhaven
Sturbridge		Acushnet
Uxbridge
Warren
Worcester		Easton

Connecticut

Stafford Springs
Berlin
Windsor Locks

Vermont

Rockingham
Hartland

New Hampshire

Keene	Lebanon
Cheshire	Laconia
Gilsum
Surry

New Jersey

Paterson

Maine

Rhode Island

Woonsocket

Hockanum Cemetery is a small cemetery along Route 47 in the Hockanum neighborhood of Hadley. It has very many burials from the late 1700s. It has many families here but the Lyman family predominates here.

Evergreen Cemetery is also called West Hill Cemetery. It is found on Munsell Street and thus it is also called the Munsell Cemetery. Lastly, since it is in the north of the town, it is also called North Cemetery.

Most likely it was founded in 1795.

A committee in Belchertown appointed in 1924 renamed this cemetery Evergreen.

Walter Corbin data is found at the LINK

The Ward and Pratt families have many members here.

Bethiah Ward

Rural Cemetery is also called Coleman Dark Corner Cemetery. It is located near the Granby border. East State Street in Granby to Ruel Street to Rural Street.

It was founded in 1769 with the burial of George Thaping.

Headstone and footstone both point to west.

Here Ive Begun a Congregation

Which You now here may see

It wont be Long er you will throng

into the grave with me

This I have said as from the dead

Therefore Get Ready to

For you must. One day ask ____________

Leoammi Prenties

The cemetery is often called the Holyoke District Cemetery.

Charles M. Barton

Lake Vale Cemetery is also called Metacomet Cemetery or Pond Hill Cemetery. It is located on Bay Road in Belchertown. It started in the 1755 and is still an active cemetery. Many members of the Bridgman family are here.

Jonathan Warner

Deborah Phelps

Mary Smith

arrangement of stones

Samuel Hannum has a correct arrangement of stones. FINDAGRAVE

William Hannum is close

Joseph Smith (d 1786) is correct

Gideon Stebbins is correct

Hannah Clark

Hiram Freeman – William and Hiram Freeman are Afro-Americans and are brothers.

Nov 28 1960 HTT

Findagrave page for Lake Vale Cemetery

Walter Corbin data can be found at the LINK

03 Jul 1954 HTT

cemetery	order / type	year started	called	location
Bacon Family Cemetery	0 family			was in Enfield but was taken out due to Quabbin
Blue Meadow Cemetery	0			was in Enfield but was taken out due to Quabbin
Dwight Cemetery	4th	1790		Cemetery Road near Federal and Amherst Streets
Evergreen Cemetery	5th	1795		Munsell Street
Hillcrest Cemetery	7th neighborhood	1807		Bardwell and Pine Streets
Jenks Cemetery	8th family	1845		at the corner of South Street and South Liberty Street
Kimball Cemetery	10th family	1867		40 Kimball St and then 1000 feet into the woods
Lake Vale Cemetery	2nd neighborhood	1755		Bay Road near Metacomet Street near Sarah Lane
Liberty Cemetery	6th	1801		near South Street near the Ludlow border
Mount Hope Cemetery	9th lawn	1846		center of town
Rural Cemetery	3rd churchyard	1769	also known as Coleman Dark Corner Cemetery	on Rural Street
South Cemetery	1st	1743	called Old Belchertown Cemetery	on Mill Valley Road (route 181)
Warner Pine Grove Memorial Cemetery	11th lawn	1925	Belchertown State School burial grounds	Turkey Hill Road

Cemeteries in the Quabbin area at the Digital Commonwealth – LINK

Walter Corbin data is found at the LINK

Chicopee Other Topics

Electricity first came to Chicopee in May 28 1896.

Holyoke’s Keys to the City – September 30 to October 22 2023 – a selfie photo contest with cash prizes – a HPT event – Read more at the link and get your first CLUE.

Read some more about the contest at EVENTBRITE. And a press release at DOC.

October 28th there will be a formal Keys to the City event at 1 PM at the front steps of Holyoke City Hall. You will get a key and a tour in the city hall.

Answers to the Key to the City event:

Location 1 – Holyoke City Hall (High Street side)

Location 2 – Holyoke Public Library (4th Floor)

Location 3 – Massachusetts National Guard Armory in Holyoke

Location 4 – Wistariahurst (Gardens)

Location 5 – Wauregan Paper Mill (Fame Restaurant)

Location 6 – Holyoke Heritage State Park (Merry-Go-Round)

Location 7 – Veterans Memorial Park (Columbia Statue)

Location 8 – Pulaski Park (formerly Hampden Park or the Patch)

Location 9 – Sue Ellen Panitch River Access Center (Holyoke Rows)

Location 10 – Ashley Reservoir (Elks Club entrance)

Location 11 – Dinosaur Tracks (Trustees of Reservations in northern Holyoke)

Location 12 – Jones Point Park

Location 13 – Forestdale Cemetery (at its central Holyoke entrance)

Location 14 – Murals in Holyoke (select any one)

Streets of Holyoke

Montgomery Avenue, River Terrace, and Wyckoff Avenue.

Wyckoff Avenue was called Hampshire Terrace from its inception in 1896.

Montgomery Avenue was called Highland Terrace from its inception in 1896 but in 1912 its name was changed.

2 Montgomery
3 Montgomery
4 Montgomery	Dr. Richard Dickson	1915	Colonial Revival
6 Montgomery	John Montgomery	1911	craftsman (English Revival)
7 Montgomery
10 Montgomery
12 Montgomery	Dr Stanley Cox house	1915	Colonial Revival
20 Montgomery
33 Montgomery
37 Montgomery
46 Montgomery
47 Montgomery
50 Montgomery
54 Montgomery	F A Davis and Machine Sales and Service	1912	Colonial Revival – concrete facade
65 Montgomery
28 River Terrace	Alfonso de Olloqui	1923	craftsman bungalow
24 River Terrace
40 River Terrace
4 River Terrace	Fontana	1900	Colonial Revival
3 River Terrace
2 River Terrace
1126 Northampton	Dunlop and Sullivan	1917	craftsman
1125 Northampton	La Loma – Joseph Ranger House
1116 Northampton	Calvin Coolidge and Henry Toepfert	1895	Victorian
1108 Northampton
1104 Northampton	Donald Ross	1890	Victorian
1098 Northampton
1070 Northampton	Herbert Cooley	1915	craftsman
16 Wyckoff
9 Wyckoff
10 Wyckoff	William Pringle House (1907 to at least 1923)	1907	Victorian
7 Wyckoff	Chauncey Cooley	1923	his father owns the house in back of this one (1070 Northampton)
8 Wyckoff

Sanborn 1915

Sanborn 1949

Sanborn 1956

Basilica of Saint Stanislaus Bishop Martyr was started in 1890. In September 1897 the school started for the first time and the nuns Franciscan Sisters of the Felician Order were the teachers. In 1902 the Franciscans priests took over. In July 25 1909 the present church was dedicated. The nuns would live at Saint Clare’s Convent since 1906.

School – LINK

Lawrence Cyman had the rectory of the Assumption Church moved to the St Stanislaus Church.

Franciszek Chałupka	1890
Stanislaus Czelusniak			FINDAGRAVE
Lawrence M Cyman	1914	1939	FINDAGRAVE
Eugene Piasecki	1939	1945	FINDAGRAVE
Josephat Piast	1946		FINDAGRAVE
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Sanborn map 1902

Sanborn map 1910

Sanborn map 1915